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Ian McLachlan In a home for the elderly, in the suburbs of London, Stephen is waiting to
die. His anxious ruminations on the past, and on a future that will go on
without him after his death, are interrupted by the arrival of Elsha, once
a famous poet, now a victim of Alzheimer's. But can he adapt to the change
that she brings?
Meanwhile, Jason, an eighteen-year-old nu-metalhead, is arriving in a new
country, Italy. Insecure, experience-hungry, and eager to experiment, he
is running away from an unhappy home, carrying with him an onerous secret,
and hoping to create a better life for himself.
Papr:kut is a novel about survival: how the past survives in us, and how
we survive in the present.
Graham Greig
A Better Serial Than Breakfast - Overtaken by his alter ego, SS officer Karl Heydrick, James Curtis embarks on a serial killing spree, venting his anger
among the prostitute underworld, on the mean streets of Glasgow. Obsessed with the life of serial killers, and completely
unaware that he himself is responsible for the latest spate of killings now taking place in the city, he forces his wife and
twins to a series of scene-of-the-crime photocalls. Set in a world of inner city deprivation, his story runs concurrent with
that of Johnnie, a small-time pimp and drug dealer, and Ali, his girl on the street. A coprophagic sailor only serves to embroil
an already volatile situation, and when Curtis's son decides to take it into his own head to seek revenge for the hours of
torment he's suffered being dragged round the city, the whole thing goes off with a bang.
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